Lightweight and portable design

Sky-Watcher’s range of Heritage telescopes are designed to be highly portable and uncomplicated to set up, ideally on a tabletop where they can be placed so the eyepiece is accessible. Being so quick and easy to use, you can be stargazing in minutes, without the setup hassles of a more complicated system such as an equatorial mount.

At just 7.5kg, the Heritage 150P Flextube is relatively lightweight, so it can be brought out quickly to catch those elusive gaps in the clouds, or whisked away easily to a dark-sky site. We put this to the test when Comet NEOWISE was at its best earlier this year, but wasn’t viewable from our garden. Collapsed down, the Heritage 150P was easily transported in the car and then set up quickly in a deadend road away from any streetlights. With it we were able to enjoy impressive views of the comet, making out the detail of the dust tail emerging from the coma. This goes to show that its compact design will appeal to anyone who wants a hassle-free get-up-and-go visual system.